6 Ways To Build Your Credit In Less Than An Hour

Amrita Jayakumar, NerdWallet.com
Mon, 05/21/2018 - 11:00am

It’s true — there’s no shortcut to achieving a good credit score. It takes years of paying your bills on time and in full, keeping balances low and managing different kinds of debt. But there are small steps you can take to help your credit, in the same time it takes to watch an episode... Amrita Jayakumar is a writer at NerdWallet.

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